Alan Avery, Atlanta galleriest for over 30 years, weighs in on the current debates surrounding recent closings in the commercial gallery landscape.
Category Archive ‘Our Front Porch’
02/12/13 Our Front Porch: Gloom and Doom? The Business of Art / Many Commercial Galleries Thriving
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10/22/12 Our Front Porch: Did FLUX Night 2012 Fail Expectations?
A concerned reader and law school student responds to recent media coverage with criticism of her own.
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07/24/12 Our Front Porch: Art Under the Oddest Circumstances
Joey Orr reflects on critical tagging and other interventions that aim to challenge institutionally sanctioned art.
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03/07/12 Our Front Porch: What Inspires Artists to Be Angelic Troublemakers?
Perhaps Atlanta’s most influential taste-maker for 30 years, Gold encourages young artists to be reformers and rabble-rousers
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03/02/12 Our Front Porch: The Beasts, an Online Exhibition Balancing Thought and Craft
The curator of Young Blood Gallery shares her thoughts on the art of curating in this digital show of four artists.
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02/22/12 Our Front Porch: Five of Craig Dongoski’s Artistic Influences
Artist and professor Craig Dongoski offers his top five for this week’s Our Front Porch.
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02/15/12 Our Front Porch: Q&A with Living Walls and Indigo
In this week’s guest column, Living Walls interviews the globe-trekking street artist and general do-gooder, Indigo.
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01/24/12 Our Front Porch: Would Atlanta Benefit from a Postcolonial Dialogue?
This week’s guest writer challenges the nostalgia of blackness at the Hammonds House Museum and other Atlanta venues.
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01/10/12 Our Front Porch: Frankenthaler, Nevelson, and Walker at Alan Avery
The Glass Ceiling Shattered reminds that female artists continue to garner less commercial success than their male counterparts.
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12/06/11 Our Front Porch: How Can Atlanta Develop New Art Collectors?
The idea for BURNAWAY originated from a front-porch conversation about the need for more dialogue about local art. Please welcome Baxter Jones, this month’s curator of Our Front Porch, a series of guest reviews and topics for open discussion with you, our readers.
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11/15/11 Our Front Porch: Collaboration and the Making of Zoetic’s Undone
The idea for BURNAWAY originated from a front-porch conversation about the need for more dialogue about local art. Amanda Thompson of Zoetic Dance Ensemble writes this week’s edition of Our Front Porch, illuminating the artistic process behind a work of contemporary dance.
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11/08/11 Our Front Porch: Top Five Favorite Fairy Tales and Mythic Creatures
The idea for BURNAWAY originated from a front-porch conversation about the need for more dialogue about local art. This week’s edition of Our Front Porch is a themed list by local artist Yanique Norman, describing some mythological inspirations for her work.
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11/01/11 Our Front Porch: What Happened to Political Art in Atlanta?
The idea for BURNAWAY originated from a front-porch conversation about the need for more dialogue about local art. Please welcome Louise Shaw, this month’s curator of Our Front Porch, a series of guest reviews and topics for open discussion with you, our readers.
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10/18/11 Our Front Porch: Spelman Looks to Acquire Fifteen New Works
We are pleased to present Stewart Ziff as this week’s guest writer for Our Front Porch, a series inviting guest contributors to share thoughts on local art for open discussion with you, our readers. Check BURNAWAY every Tuesday for new surprises!. Since its inception in 1996 as a repository for the university’s art collection, the [...]
Jared: Excited for the Bowman collection. She is someone to keep an eye on
ruth: What do you do with difficult lines of memory? Fold them into a san
Beth Lilly: I know! That's exactly the type of work I had in mind with the call f
Jason Francisco: Davis' bulletin boards seem to me actually to be photographs themselve
burnaway: approved